Contrary to the literature, reserved for a minority, the music is popular art par excellence. To simplify, one can divide it into two large currents, the Compass and the Music Root. The first, which one allots paternity to Jean Baptiste NEMOURS, was elaborate with the beginning of the year sixty. Slower than the dances latinos (salsa, merengue), it was spread in the Caribbean one, especially in the French West Indies where it was a great success. TABOO COMBO, Tropicana still have heats in favour and new groups took the changing (compass